It's Time Again for ... Open Letters!

[phinnia]

Dear Microsoft,

While I appreciate your concern for my safety, please be advised that I really, truly do know how to use my own machine properly. I did at one point in the not too distant past work a technical support job, and I have also been known to consort with Windows programmers that are wise in the ways of your voodoo.

So the fact that I don't want to use the Windows Firewall (because I have a hardware firewall of my very own that is working just fine, thank you) is not something for you to get your panties in a knot about. Really. It's not necessary to pop up help balloons at every turn telling me OMG WTF FIREWALL!!11one.

Really. I do know what I'm doing. Promise. Now kindly tell me how to shut off those help balloons. You're letting me monitor my own antivirus program, for which I am very grateful - you know, letting me be responsible for MY OWN COMPUTER and all? But the help balloons have to go, man.

I'm sure you remember what happened LAST TIME I got dissatisfied with the behaviour of your programs? You know, the time I tore out Office and IE and replaced them with Staroffice and Firefox and Thunderbird?

I'm sure you don't want that to happen again. And while I'd never entirely go over to the Mac Side for reasons of my own (involving lack of present accessiblity, hardware incompatiblity and problems I see with iTunes and its DRM), Linux is looking remarkably tempting ....

In Yours We Anti-Trust,

Leah

Edit: You're lucky. I managed to disable those stupid help balloons.

Comments

[tsita.livejournal.com]

The only thing from stopping me from switching to Linux is the fact that right now I don't have the bloody time to learn it.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

IE is the browser of doom -- everyone I know who uses it has gotten viruses off the campus network, viruses literally so bad that the network has kicked a good HALF of the student population off the network, banned them permanently until ResNet losers can come look at their computers... my roommate made an appointment days ago, and won't get her computer looked at sometime in OCTOBER. I use Opera these days; I liked it a teensy bit better than Firefox but I can't remember why.

Windows XP is FULL of features so helpful they make me want to gauge out my eyeballs with a spoon. Have you ever encountered the delightful StickyKeys? They want me to die.

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

*shudders* Ugh. Stickykeys. You one of those people just absentmindedly presses the shift key too?
Have you downloaded service pack 2 yet? I swear it makes it /worse/ than it was before. (Which was admittedly bad.)

[kay-willow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I'm writing, if I'm thinking of the PERFECT way to start/word a new sentence, I'll always hover on the shift key, and then STICKYKEYS ATTACKS. It's so hard for me to get rid of, it's almost less trouble to just turn off the computer. >_<

I haven't downloaded any updates in forever. I'm ignoring anything Windows tells me that isn't seconded by something more reliable. ^^;; McAfee will protect me from the holes in Windows -- the patches will just HURT me.

[phelyan.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

I sent an email to Microsoft a while ago, complaining about the tool tips in MSN Messenger, which pop up at every opportunity they can get and usually cover text you were just about to read. I never got a reply...